Current Events > When speedsters run around the world, time slows down so would they be running

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for what feels like days? Like you move faster than the everyone else because time is slow for you but you still gotta go all the way around in a state where everything in slow motion but you're moving at what seems like normal speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ9C-pao0lw&ab_channel=Solidjj

And flash run circling the earth to deliver a punch, Zell-style.
It would've taken years for that, and yet he still that spiteful

I found that generally comic book writers aren't great mathematicians and tend to screw up when it comes to things like that.

There's a fairly famous flash page where he rescues a whole bunch of people from a burning building and the author just casually threw in and he did it all in a nanosecond or something like that, because all the author was thinking about was communicating gee that was fast. Then somebody did the math and found that they had, probably accidentally, made flash move like a dozen times faster than the speed of light.

The short answer, is speed force. Whatever question you have around how speedsters work when it doesn't make sense, just say speed force out loud and then move on. That's how DC does it.

s0nicfan posted...

There's a fairly famous flash page where he rescues a whole bunch of people from a burning building and the author just casually threw in and he did it all in a nanosecond or something like that,

It's even worse than that, it was in a picosecond which I didn't even know existed until I read that comic.

Speedsters would be more interesting if they didnt have super reflex and could only physically move very fast while barely being able to mentally keep up with their surroundings

in theory super speed is my favorite super power but the way it seems to be traditionally written makes it so that the only thing you can do for villains is other speedsters which turns fights into normal fights essentially

Doe posted...

the way it seems to be traditionally written makes it so that the only thing you can do for villains is other speedsters which turns fights into normal fights essentially

Flash has a ton of non speedster villains though and one of the most liked rogues galleries behind Spider-Man and Batman. It's just the CW show that felt the need to constantly have speedsters as the main villain for the season.

Perception of time is relative. The Flash running at super speed would perceive time passing as passing normally for him.

TheSavageDragon posted...

It's even worse than that, it was in a picosecond which I didn't even know existed until I read that comic.

It was even WORSE. He said an ATTOSECOND.

They did not crunch that number properly.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/ad7c275b.jpg

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

It was even WORSE. He said an ATTOSECOND.

They did not crunch that number properly.

Lol you're right. I had forgotten about that, I learned what an attosecond is along with a picosecond that day when I looked up wtf an attosecond even was

EyeWontBeFooled posted...

It was even WORSE. He said an ATTOSECOND.

They did not crunch that number properly.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/ad7c275b.jpg

And I'm assuming that because he moved the people so fast they instantly evaporated from friction burn alone.

There was a twilight zone type show I remember seeing where a guy got the power to slow down time to help him while boxing, but he started to age while it was happening then he got stuck in slowed down time in a shower and died of old age or something.

GeminiDeus posted...

And I'm assuming that because he moved the people so fast they instantly evaporated from friction burn alone.

Post 3 answers that one.
Flash doesn't get friction burn due to the Speed Force aura. He can extend that aura to his surroundings and people he's carrying. It's a magic button the writers go to every time